Where would Jesus be if no one ever wrote the gospels?
– Chuck Palahniuk
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- It’s amazing what a woman will read into if you by accident, say I love you. Ten times out of ten, a guy means I love this. – Chuck Palahniuk
- I was very invested in love but it was just this long sex thing that could end at any moment because after all, it’s about getting off. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break. – Chuck Palahniuk
- They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost. – Chuck Palahniuk
- If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. – Chuck Palahniuk
- The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday. – Chuck Palahniuk
- At this rate, we’ll never get to the future. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person. – Chuck Palahniuk
- You’d be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp. – Chuck Palahniuk
- The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture. – Chuck Palahniuk
- We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we’ve been speaking English as a second language so long that we’ve forgotten it as our first.I have no native tongue. – Chuck Palahniuk
- The idea that I can’t share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems. – Chuck Palahniuk
- You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it’s just teeth. – Chuck Palahniuk
- HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it’s so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me. – Chuck Palahniuk
- By the time you read this, you’ll be older than you remember. – Chuck Palahniuk
- No, I say, it’s fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really. – Chuck Palahniuk
- Everybody’s trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second. – Chuck Palahniuk